Migrants fighting deportation through the courts, at enormous cost to the hard-up taxpayer are clearly just laughing at us, giving more and more ludicrous reasons that they can’t be kicked out.
They always cite the European Court of Human Rights as their main reason for staying. Surely the answer is easy. Scrap the ECHR. It’s literally as simply as that.
The ECHR is preventing us from sending back illegal migrants to their country of origin.
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Take these three shocking cases which have emerged in the last 72 hours;
1) The Pakistani father who was jailed for child sex offences escaped being deported because it was ‘’unduly harsh’’ on HIS children.
2) A woman fighting her deportation back to Grenada by arguing in court that her European husband did not like Caribbean food and would struggle with the heat.
3) An Albanian criminal was allowed to stay here after claiming his son would refuse to eat the chicken nuggets in Albania.
In my old job editing The Sun (in those days we sold 4.3million a day, today it sells 300,000) each one of those incredible tales would have led our news. Today it would be lucky to be a Page 11 lead or way down the news site. That’s how weary the journalists are of these tales. They are wrong. The public is bloody angry at the migrants and at the system.
I never believe any of these stories and it’s quite beyond me why judges are prepared to indulge their ridiculous excuses. It’s time we changed the law. From now on these people should be deported first and if they want to fight they can do so from their own homeland.
Lynthia Calliste has argued that the climate of Grenada means she and her husband are unable to be deported there.
Let’s just study their stories. Take Lynthia Calliste who arrived in the UK from Grenada as a visitor with her son in March 2018 on a six month visa. She has remained here ever since. So, she broke the law and she knew she did. It’s how most of the illegals get here and stay here.
The Home Office only began to attempts to remove her after she applied for a marital visa after marrying a Latvian fork lift driver who had permanent settled status here under the EU scheme.
She claimed being deported would force her to be separated from her husband. We said take him with you.
She then said he would be ‘’unable to tolerate the cuisine’’ in Grenada and said there would also be ‘’worries about the heat’’ given temperatures are higher in the Caribbean than Latvia.
The first tribunal rejected her story but now she’s appealing. There are 34,169 outstanding asylum appeals in the immigration tribunal courts, almost five times the number of three years ago. This can’t go on.
The most shocking recent case is of the Pakistani father who was granted leave to remain in the UK after coming to join his wife with whom he has two children, aged three and four.
In March 2021 he started targeting ‘’pre-pubescent’’ girls aged 12, 13 and 14 who were in fact decoys in what was believed to be an undercover police operation.
It continued for 18 months until his arrest and his subsequent imprisonment for 18 months. The court judge said there would be no impact on his wife and children because, for obvious reasons, he was not living in the family home.
Despite what that judge said the lower immigration tribunal judge who heard his appeal accepted it would be ‘’unduly harsh’’ to separate him from children who he was still allowed to see under supervised contact.
Incredible he was allowed anonymity. The good news is that another immigration judge has now heard the case and says it is wrong for the Pakistani to stay and referred the case back to the lower court. Let’s hope the court now sees the light.
A Reform UK win in 2029 is our best chance to get rid of the ECHR.
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The final case concerns an Albanian who came here under a fake name in 2001. He was stripped of his British citizenship in 2021 after being jailed for two years after being found in possession of £250,000, known to be the proceeds of crime.
The man, Klevis Disha, has been granted the right to stay after saying a) His son didn’t like chicken nuggets in Albania and b) His son had sensory difficulties to clothing, in particular to socks and food.
Unbelievable. But there’s money in it for lawyers to spin these stories, whether they believe them or not.
As I said at the beginning of this piece until we thrown out the ECHR (which will never happen under lawyer Starmer) these tales will continue to be pedaled in immigration courts. It’s why I am sure Reform, who will dispatch ECHR, will win 2029.
